Islands High Boys 63, Toombs County 55

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• published: 06 Dec 2014
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http://www.toombsnow.com On the same night the Toombs County Lady Bulldogs won their first game of the season, the Toombs County Boys basketball team lost their first game of 2014-15. The Lady Dawgs scored the same amount of points, 27, in the fourth quarter that they scored in the first three quarters combined in a 54-46 victory over Islands High School in a Region 1 game played in a small gym in the Costal Empire. Meanwhile, the Sharks outscored the Bulldogs 12-2 over the final 90 seconds to win 63-55. The Lady Bulldogs trailed at the end of each of the first three quarters- 11-7, 22-19 and 35-27. However, in the final period three Lady Bulldogs combined to score 26 of the 27 points. Breanna Walker, who led TCHS with 18 points and 28 rebounds, sank a 3-pointer and scored eight fourth quarter points, JoAnne Gomez and Dominique Jones each scored nine points in the final period and finished with career high totals, Gomez tossed in 15 points and Jones chipped in 11. Jocelyn Walker scored eight points and collected 16 rebounds and Tyara Gaines scored two. The Lady Bulldogs are 1-4. In the boys game Jalen Mobley, who sank two fourth quarter 3-balls in a win at Wheeler County six days earlier, came out and knocked down the first three shots he attempted. Two left wing 3-pointers and a right wing three. However, the Sharks were also shooting the long ball well and they led 17-11 after the first quarter. Mobley added a 3-pointer in each of the next three quarters and finished with a career high 20 points. The game was tied 27-all at half and TCHS was on top 42-39 going to the fourth quarter. Carlos Eason (12 points) followed up a Dawg miss and tied the game at 53 with 1:30 to play. From that point on the Sharks pressure defense forced TCHS into turnovers leading to the game-ending run. Brandon Dillard scored eight points, Andre Clark five, D.R. Meadows and KeShawn Morgan each had four and Darius Scott two. Justin Core hit three 3-pointers and scored 29 for Islands. Hugh Durham, the grandson of the former Georgia Bulldog head basketball coach of the same name, shot the three lights out and scored 15. The only Georgia coach to take the Bulldogs to the Final Four (1983) was sitting in the stands wearing a red shirt. Durham also was the head coach at Florida State and Jacksonville University. He is the only coach in history to take two teams to the Final Four for the first and only time. He coached a very tall Florida State squad in 1971-72 and those Seminoles made it to the Final Four. Florida State beat North Carolina 79-75 in the semifinals and then lost to UCLA 81-76. The Bruins were coached by John Wooden and Bill Walton was the Most Outstanding player of the Final Four. Georgia lost in the semifinals to North Carolina State 67-60 in the Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That N.C. State team beat Houston on the last second dunk by Lorenzo Charles to give coach Jim Valvano his only national title.